Welcome to Subject Guides

Encompass Search is more than a typical ‘Library Catalog’-- it is a unified discovery tool powered by the OCLC WorldCat Database. Through one simple search box, it allows you to find information by searching through a massive collection of books, scholarly journals, newspapers and magazines, dissertations, conference proceedings, music, video, maps, and more.

Trexler Library makes a trove (almost 2 million and counting!) of electronic books available for research and reading. This guide will help you find, use, and troubleshoot ebooks.

Tips on how to troubleshoot access to ebooks from Trexler

Users can use books from the Internet Archive once they have signed up for a free account.

Link takes you to a Google Document tutorial that provides step-by-step instructions on installing and using the free Zotero citation manager.

Answers to the question: Why can't I access a proxied site when the Zotero Connector is enabled?

Guide to locating graphic novels in the stacks at Trexler Library.

Our "Get started" guide to locating journal articles.

How to locate books by & about the Bard

Trexler Library is a U.S. Government Depository Library, which means that we receive physical copies of many government documents that the Government Printing Office (GPO) prints, as well as electronic resources.

At Trexler Library, paper and microform copies of U.S Government Publications are in a separate section on Level A. These publications are shelved using the Superintendent of Documents numbering system (SuDoc Numbers). For help with how to read a SuDoc Call Number, please refer to this tipsheet.

How to locate and use ebooks from various vendors available at Trexler Library.

A guide to the advanced search techniques needed to locate records for musical scores in Encompass Search.

A guide to using mobile collaboration stations and the projector located in the Information Commons room